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Friday, September 5, 2008

One of my sons has a little issue with fibbing. I hesitate to use the "L" word. Let's just say he likes to embellish the truth. Or completely come up with his own truths. I don't know where he got his annoying little trait from...

He told his grandmother that he'd been trying new food recently, and that he'd been eating lots of "stinky tofu." Really, Remy? Really? Not at my house.

He once told an old lady in the shoe department at Dillards that he was an orphan. His parents had died.

If my older son Donny and I are talking about the dreams we had the night before, Remy shares his dream...which sounds remarkably like his older brother's, only changed slightly.

Our sweet Annie has been blamed for some pretty wild capers. I just don't think her paws are capable of throwing that sticky ball all the way to the ceiling.

Then, last week, he started telling me he had a locker at school. First graders don't have lockers. And, because we'd made such a big deal about his sixth grade brother practicing his locker combination before school started, I knew where this was coming from.

However, he kept talking about it. Wouldn't stop...but had a silly smile on his face and changed details a lot...so I threatened to email his teacher to ask her. And he told me I could. So, I called him on his bluff.

This is the email I received:

Yes, we do have lockers. We are so special because we are the only 1st grade class that has lockers! We only have lockers because our classroom does not have a closet like the other 1st grade classes. The fact that we have lockers in the highlight of our year!!! It is so funny how the kids get so excited about something like lockers!!! Remy was telling the truth!

So, now who's looking foolish and feeling ashamed? Yep. me. Just figures. The little stinker. Reminds me of the story of the boy who cried wolf.

On a related note, I was cleaning out my car while being robbed pumping gas and I found some of Remy's recent artwork folded up on the backseat. So, I decided to share my little madcap artist with you.

This first one made me smile. What he wants to be when he grows up.

And because I'm a good mom, I won't tell him that this is unlikely because:

27 comments:

White boys can jump! I love his artistic ability though. He is so thorough! He needs to illustrate a book for you. That would be a fun activity and such a great thing for him to have. There's your new job, Rhea...children's book author!!!

I think it is him attacking the volcano! Remy versus the volcano.

The last one, I had to stare at a while...sorta looks kie a double decker bus being over taken by a wave, but that may be my inherent fear talking and not the actual depiction of Remy's art....

He is the cutest thing. I just want to squeeze him! The embellishing is a good indicator of a creatively gifted soul.

CUTE post about the lockers! It figures!!! Those pics look like stories coming out of the mind of a Ben 10 fan. Does he watch Ben 10 on Cartoon Network, the young boy who changes into different aliens to battle evil?

Also, my post today thought of you and your post about the carpool line.

First of all, my is that kid gorgeous! Secondly, Heeheeheeeeeeeeeee! He sure IS a liar! But too funny about writing the teacher.The one with the volcano? It looks like the man is being shot with lava and he's on fire. The second one looks like a bus underneath a roller coaster to me.

I have a little liar at my house too. She is in a perpetual state of being in trouble. One year she convinced her preschool teachers that we went to Alaska for Thanksgiving. She had so many details they were believing her. Until they asked me about it (because, really, who goes to Alaska at the end of November??) - and Madalyn looked at them like they were idiots and said, "I told you I dreamt this!"

And the pictures - it looks to me like the volcano is going to take that guy down.

And the second one. That man is driving a shark. When I was younger, someone told me that when they filmed Jaws, the people that Jaws ate had to wait inside the shark - and that it was so big that there were seats. Kinda like an airplane. So, maybe that same person talked to Remy...

Classic! I'm not sure what is going on in this picture but I'll guess -

It looks like waves ~ maybe that guy up top is like the captain guiding the wave and all the little minions under neath are powering it forward. I love how he initialed it. Signed artwork - already a pro.